Can you do the highlight the .smi in the thumbnail area, load it into the player and import? The spanned clip should play and import normally, i.e. as one logical clip, as long as all the parts are seen by the system. You should see ticks along the play line at the splice points. In the SUB CLIPS area verify that just the .smi is checked; this means the spanned clip will import in one piece. You can also import just the various parts if you need to.